Blood Death Knight Tank Macros and Addons — The War Within (11.0.5)

• #showtooltip Raise Ally
• /cast [@mouseover,help][@target]Raise Ally

This macro casts Raise Ally on your mouseover target, if they are a friendly player. Otherwise, it casts Raise Ally on your current target.

• #showtooltip Mind Freeze
• /cast [@focus,harm,nodead][] Mind Freeze

This macro allows you to interrupt your focus target, if you have one, and if not to simply interrupt your current target.

• #showtooltip Gorefiend's Grasp
• /cast [mod:shift,@focus,exists][@mouseover,exists,nodead][@player] Gorefiend's Grasp

If you have your cursor over a valid target to center Gorefiend's Grasp on, this macro will cast Gorefiend's Grasp at your cursor. By holding shift, it will instead cast Gorefiend's Grasp on your focus target. Otherwise, it will center your Gorefiend's Grasp on yourself.

• #showtooltip Death and Decay
• /cleartarget
• /cast [@cursor] Death and Decay; [mod:ctrl, @player] Death and Decay
• /targetlasttarget

This will drop Death and Decay where your cursor is at, skipping the entire targeting reticule in the process and saving you 200-500ms in the process. Holding down CTRL will instead drop it at your feet.

• /cancelaura Blessing of Protection

This macro is very useful to have. It allows you to cancel a Blessing of Protection that may have been cast on you. It is important because while you are under the effect of Blessing of Protection, mobs will not attack you and instead will just attack the next person on the aggro list (often a DPS player), though taunting a mob will still force it to attack you for 3 seconds.

• /target pet
• /run PetDismiss()
• /use Control Undead
• /petassist

ElvUI is a complete replacement of the default User Interface. It comes with almost everything you need to perform properly: action bars, unit frames, cooldown timers, proc displays, etc.

Boss mods are addons that warn you about boss abilities and give you live advice on how to handle some mechanics. We strongly recommend you to get one such addon. At Icy Veins, we mostly use Deadly Boss Mods, the most popular boss mod. A good alternative is Big Wigs.

GTFO is a lightweight addon that notifies you when you are standing in harmful effects or when you are making other such mistakes. It is very useful, even if your boss mod is already alerting you of such things.

Parrot and Mik's Scrolling Battle Text are highly customisable addons for displaying floating battle text while in combat (incoming heals, damage of your spells, etc.). They both work very well by default.

WeakAuras is an extremely useful addon that allows you to have visual effects on your screen, helping you track your buffs, debuffs and cooldowns. It is highly customisable and it can make it much, much easier to keep track of your procs and play your spec more proficiently. It can also be used for a variety of other functions.

Recount is a well known addon that most people use for displaying current DPS or HPS (Healing Per Second). This add-on is not really lightweight, and provides a very high amount of information (and it can sometimes cause issues with performance). It is generally a good option to use Recount for checking what you take damage from and if the share of damage/healing you do with each of your abilities is similar to that of other players of your class.

An alternative to Recount (similar in function, so the choice is personal preference) is Details!.

A lightweight alternative to Recount and Details! is Skada Damage Meter.

Method Raid Tools is a useful addon that allows you to track the cooldowns of other raid members, as well as providing you with a wealth of other useful raid information.

Clique allows you to bind specific spells to be cast as mouseover casts on unit frames. This can be very useful for casting Raise Ally without changing your target.

Compact Runes is a great addon for tracking Rune cooldowns, and it also has a number of other Death Knight-specific modules to track your buffs, debuffs, and cooldowns.

Currently, we do not believe that you need any additional addons to play your specialisation to its full potential.